This is for those people in law enforcement who haven’t given up and given in yet – you know who you are. You had a dream when you took your job. You were going to be one of the good guys and you are still doing your damnedest to be one of the good guys. I know you exist – I’ve dated some guys like you, given riding lessons to guys like you, and stood up for guys like you. You stand up for people in need, it’s the least any of us can do in return – is to stand up for you. That’s what I’m doing now and that is why I’m dealing with the mess that I have on my hands now – because I’m standing up for one of the good guys and ya know what I’ve found out? The good guys are catchin’ it on the chin one whole hell-of-a-lot these days. This isn’t how it was supposed to be – this isn’t what you signed on for; it’s not the dream you had when you entered law enforcement; I know damned well it isn’t (You guys who started wearing a badge for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the power you think it gives you can go piss off – that badge doesn’t give you power, your actions create or weaken the power behind that badge and if you are weakening it this message isn’t for you).
I have been on a serious search lately for the kind of law enforcement that I know – I absolutely know – is out there. We have some of them right here in our town, I don’t have to go far to find a good cop – I watched our guys arrest my buddy Audrius and turn him in to immigration and I know how much they didn’t want to do that. They know Audrius, they know the kind of man he is, but their primary allegiance is to the law and the people who entrusted them to enforce that law and they weren’t about to betray either. That is what the good guys do. Real law enforcement, the one’s that still have some balls – they do shit like that without excuses and I know just where to find that kind, but I need federal law enforcement this time, not local. If you are one of the good guys and you are federal this is meant for you. If you are reading this you have probably been contacted by me and you’re checking me out. Well honey, if you don’t have any balls left, don’t bother to get back to me. If you can’t even defend your own integrity, how the hell can you defend me or the law? If what I just said doesn’t have you getting all defensive and running for the “excuse bucket” then please read on; you are who I’m talking to here.
I’m warning you right off: this message you are reading now is subversive as hell. I’ve wasted too damned much time on domesticated “yes men;” don’t have the patience to deal with such sorry-assed imitations any more and I’m looking for a strong, difficult and determined agent of the law. I need someone with the balls and the heart to stand up and do the right thing, but beyond that; I’m out to convince you that you don’t have to let the damned system destroy your dream of who and what you can be. I’m here to tell you that you have a right to be one of the good guys and to be respected for that, but to be that, well . . . It’s gonna take some serious balls these days. There are people out there working hard to turn our whole damned system into one where you gotta go along to get along. I don’t care if you are male of female, standing up for justice is not a task for the soft and malleable – not now – probably never was, but it seems like it’s worse lately, doesn’t it?
First off you’ve got a damned near impossible job these days because there are people around you, people on your own team, who do not have your back unless you dance to their tune and their tune is to pervert the system and bend it to their advantage. But when you took that badge, who did you give your allegiance to, the guy who won’t have your back unless you do as he says, or to the people of this country and the law? That guy who wants to turn our system into one where technicalities, connections and threats rule over solid evidence and provable facts; I’ve met that person – actually I’ve met a few too many persons dancing to that tune lately. That son-of-a-bitch has betrayed the trust of the people and he’s betraying you just as much as me – you aren’t just law enforcement, you know – you’re a citizen too and he’s expecting you to betray yourself right along with us.
Imagine what would happen if little shits like that were gone, if you and your job was respected again. It can happen, but it won’t if you don’t stand up for what you became a law enforcement officer to defend. You don’t have to watch your dreams die. You don’t have to sit and drink yourself stupid while talking about what you used to believe. You can kick back with a brew and your family or friends knowing that you are one of the ones who doesn’t just believe he or she can defend people, can save and protect people, you actually are that person. The system didn’t make you a puppet, you made the system work. I know you’re there. Do you still know you are?
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